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U. of Cincinnati partners to provide senior transportation

CINCINNATI —University of Cincinnati (UC) partnered with the Independent Transportation Network of Greater Cincinnati, enabling students to be able to receive credit for driving older adults as part of a pilot project, Cleveland.Com reported.

The program, Driving Community Connections, is supported by the Ohio Department of Aging and the Ohio Board of Regents. UC students who volunteer can take a one credit hour online elective course to learn more about the aging process. Ohio Department of Aging staff will participate in class webinars. UC is the first university to partner with the transportation network. For the full story, click here.

While transportation costs accounted for the second-largest household budget category behind housing expenses in both 1989 and 2016, transportation expenditures relative to housing costs declined from 61.6% in 1989 to 47.9% last year.